It was very cold during the night, a hard frost and there was ice on the inside of our windscreen behind the insulated blinds. We were quite toasty with our gas heating though.
We packed up and left Glenmore, and drove up to the Cairngorm ski car park. It costs £3.50 a day to park there now.
We set off on our short walk to Coire an t-Sneachda. This is a mountain corrie situated at over 900 metres, just below the summit of Cairn Gorm itself. Like yesterday the weather was stunning.
The path is superb, there were quite a few other people doing the same. We passed some frozen ponds.
At the corrie itself we were out of the sun, shaded by the cliffs. It's a great setting though, after clambering over some boulders we got to the little lochans there.
We could see and hear ptarmigans there, they are in their winter white plumage already.
For our lunch stop we headed back down the path a bit, to get back into the sunshine. On the way back we could easily see the whole ridge we'd walked along yesterday.
We got back to the van and headed home, arriving in Dunblane just after 4pm.
